This paper analyzes the incentives for governments to impose export subsidies when firms invest in a cost saving … technology before market competition. Governments first impose an export subsidy or a tax. After observing export policy, firms …. Under Bertrand competition, export subsidies are positive whenever R&D is sufficiently cost-effective at reducing marginal …

Although the GATT prohibits discriminatory import tariffs, it includes means for circumventing this prohibition. The … previous literature uses static models and discriminatory tariffs increase welfare. In a dynamic model, if governments lack the … ability to precommit, this is not necessarily true. For example, with consumer switching costs, tariffs are higher for firms …

committed to trade policy during two periods. We compare the case in which both governments choose their export subsidies in the …, under Cournot competition, welfare is higher when both governments synchronize their choice of export-promoting policy …, since export subsidies are lower (closer to the cooperative solution) than when governments set them sequentially …

This paper examines Foreign Direct Investment in the presence of labour unions. An oligopoly model is developed in … which identical firms locate in a host country in order to export to a foreign country. These firms are unionised and …